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Re: 02/02: gnu: next: Compress the executable.


From: Pierre Neidhardt
Subject: Re: 02/02: gnu: next: Compress the executable.
Date: Wed, 02 Oct 2019 17:20:10 +0200

Maxim Cournoyer <address@hidden> writes:

> I like that Btrfs allows to set different namespaces (think of LVM
> logical volumes) on the fly as subvolumes.  I use snapshots as a mean of
> backups, (using the btrfs send/receive mechanism to backup the snapshots
> (differentially) to external storage).

Aren't btrfs snapshots overlapping with Guix generations?

>
> I haven't noticed much slow down (if at all?), and the 'lzo' compression
> keeps the /gnu/store size 30% smaller or so.

This is pretty good!  Alright, you sold it to me! :)

-- 
Pierre Neidhardt
https://ambrevar.xyz/

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